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b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 month agoActually, it was the Romans who came up with the term “Germani” for the various tribes at the nortthern end of the world. The anglo-saxons being one of them.
Comment on Learning Japanese
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 month agoActually, it was the Romans who came up with the term “Germani” for the various tribes at the nortthern end of the world. The anglo-saxons being one of them.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, just like it was an Italian man that first called them Indians. Wouldn’t make it Italy’s fault if Americans called it Indialand, though.
mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
So Americans alone are at fault for using the term German in English then? The chain of logic here is impressive I’ll say that.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Really? That’s why I got a down vote? Dude, my metaphor in the first comment was likening it to “if we (Americans) called First Nation land ‘Indialand’”. So, no. If you map the metaphor back onto to the counter, it’s the UK’s fault, not America’s.